‘The Harder They Fall’ Director Jeymes Samuel on Remixing Revisionist History: "These. People. Existed"

“This is a pandemic that is in fact fueled by younger people,” said Los Angeles Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer today as she unveiled a list of the L.A. County 10 communities currently being hit hardest by Covid-19.

Sidney Poitier New American Film School, the university announced on Tuesday. Boone Isaacs, also a former film marketing and public relations executive, will take the reins as director of the three-campus film school on Jan 1, 2022.

Leave No Traces director Jan P. Matuszynski said that although the Polish population might know about the murder of Grzegorz Przemyk, most didn’t understand the full scope of the operation. Matuszynski and lead actor Tomasz Zietek joined film critic Todd McCarthy to talk about the political drama during Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles award-season event Sunday at the DGA Theater.

For Elaine Bogan’s animated feature film directorial debut, DreamWorks Animation’s Spirit Untamed, it seemed like there was a constant bit of kismet at play.

Writer-director Fran Kranz and cast members Reed Birney, Ann Dowd, Jason Isaacs and Martha Plimpton promised nervous audiences that their school-shooting drama Mass is a hopeful one. They spoke with Deadline’s Antonia Blyth at The Contenders Film: Los Angeles event Sunday.

When developing a sequel to the animated hit and Oscar-nominated The Boss Baby, director Tom McGrath drew on his own relationship with his brother, a dynamic that came up as McGrath and producer Jeff Hermann discussed The Boss Baby: Family Business on Sunday at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles awards-season event.

As with his past features Beginners and 20th Century Women, writer-director Mike Mills focused his latest effort, C’mon C’mon, on family—this time honing in not on his relationship with his father or mother, but instead on that between an adult and a child.

Sing 2 writer-director Garth Jennings still doesn’t know “what magical fairy helped me” secure pop music icon Bono for a crucial role in the sequel to his blockbuster animated musical-comedy, but he suspects it’s all about the eclectic spectrum of songs the film employs.

Joachim Trier, who directed The Worst Person in the World and co-wrote it with Eskil Vogt, said his Norwegian rom-com is epic in scope. Trier spoke with Deadline’s Matt Grobar at The Contenders Film: Los Angeles event Sunday.

A slew A-list stars have come together for the upcoming 1970s-set family drama The Tender Bar as actor George Clooney, 60, makes his directorial debut. One of those stars is film and TV legend Christopher Lloyd, 83, who just received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Saturn Awards on Oct.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorKristen Stewart wants you to know that “Spencer,” her new movie in which she stars as Princess Diana, is not a biopic or documentary. It is a fictional take on what happened when Diana decided during a family Christmas that she wanted out of her marriage to Prince Charles.“We’re not trying to educate anyone, we’re not trying to solve anything,” Stewart told me Tuesday night at the film’s Los Angeles premiere at the DGA.

Kara MacLean has taken on the role of Senior Director at PR and communications agency Organic. She will report to Senior Vice President Kirsty Langsdale, who launched Organic’s Los Angeles office in January 2020. MacLean will work with Langsdale to continue building U.S. business for the London-based agency. Organic recently announced APAC office – Organic Pacific – based in Sydney, Australia.

Angelique Jackson Variety cover star Jeymes Samuel could not have been more ready for his big moment. The writer, director, producer and composer was suited and booted as he stepped onto the bright blue carpet for the Los Angeles launch of his wild Western “The Harder They Fall” on Wednesday night at the Shrine Auditorium.Since the movie presents a fresh take on the dusty genre, the dress code was super fly.

Leni Klum and her dad Seal pose together at the premiere of The Harder They Fall held at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on Wednesday night (October 13) in Los Angeles.

Red carpet ready! Stars slipped on their sequin mini dresses, draped themselves in jewels and headed over the Los Angeles premiere of The Harder They Fall on Wednesday, October 13.